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Re:Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new ... by lupire on Thursday October 31, 2024 @07:48AM (#42005848)
Google does not write much publicly available JavaScript. They wrote their own special flavor. (Same for any hugel legacy operation)
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Re:Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new ... by bilekas on Thursday October 31, 2024 @08:08AM (#42006010)
Can we get some more info on what you're reffering to ?
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Re:Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new ... by jkaptur on Thursday October 31, 2024 @10:54AM (#42007547)
They're probably talking about Closure Compiler type annotations [0], which never really took off outside Google, but (imo) were pretty great in the days before TypeScript. (Disclosure: Googler)

0. https://github.com/google/closure-compiler/wiki/Annotating-J...

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